Global Development

As recyclers are aware, the recycling industry is truly an international marketplace. Recovered commodities are traded in a global market, with pricing often determined by consumers that are continents away from the point of generation. This creates a far more complex industry for processors and traders throughout the globe.

To address the growing globalization of the recycling industry, Recycling Today—the oldest independent business magazine covering the market—is introducing Recycling Today Global Edition. This new publication, built on the 45-year foundation of Recycling Today, features globally oriented content that includes global market reports, company profiles and industry news.

While Recycling Today offers readers a glimpse at the issues and companies shaping the recycling industry around the world, Global Edition focuses on providing previously unavailable editorial content with a focus on regional commodity reports covering generation, export and consuming markets for iron and steel, nonferrous metals, paper and plastics.

Coverage also includes equipment and technology, the perspective of industry leaders and profiles of growing companies. Additionally, Global Edition will provide vital statistics and data designed to offer readers insight into complex markets.

"In a world that is growing increasingly smaller because of globalization, Recycling Today recognizes the need to provide timely and relevant coverage of the worldwide recycling industry," Jim Keefe, group publisher of the Recycling Today Media Group, Richfield, Ohio, says. "We feel Recycling Today Global Edition will provide the comprehensive global coverage that the recycling industry needs."

Offering his insight on this new publication is industry veteran and former Bureau of International Recycling (BIR) Nonferrous President Larry Sax. Sax has 50 years of processing and trading experience in the international scrap business. His career has involved owning and running a family scrap business and managing scrap procurement for publicly traded consumers.

Recycling Today’s Keefe, Editor and Chief Brian Taylor and Senior Editor Dan Sandoval are also putting their expertise to bear in Global Edition. The editorial staff has gained insight into the global recycling marketplace, having hosted and developed the programming for the Recycling Today Media Group’s European Paper Recycling Conferences as well as having visited a variety of recyclers and consumers of scrap material throughout the world.

Having an editorial team with more than 100 years of combined market experience enables Recycling Today Global Edition to provide unique and powerful industry insight.

In addition to the editorial foundation that Global Edition is built upon, the magazine will offer a 21st century format through an interactive digital product that is delivered to subscribers’ e-mail inboxes, eliminating postal delays.

Global Edition will be delivered monthly starting in April of 2008.

Readers interested in subscribing can e-mail Dan Sandoval at dsandoval@gie.net, with the words "Global Subscription" included in the subject head.